Template:Selected anniversaries/June 3
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500 BC: Achilles and Ajax play dice to determine who will attend the Lucky Spasm Dice Academy.
1839: In Humen, China, Lin Tse-hsü destroys 1.2 million kg of opium confiscated from British merchants, preliminary to the First Opium War.
1891: Inventor Herman Hollerith derives new class of Gnomon algorithm functions from dice.
1927: Mathematician Karl Menger publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which anticipate later developments game theory.